New Liver Transplant Outpatient Clinic To Open In East Bay

News from John Muir Health:

John Muir Health and UCSF Medical Center have collaborated to bring a new Liver Transplant Outpatient Clinic to the East Bay.

The Clinic allows patients who are waiting for transplants, or who have recently received transplants, at UCSF Medical Center, which is nationally recognized for the quality of its program, to receive clinical services such as blood testing and monitoring at the new location in Walnut Creek.

By working more closely together, this is one way John Muir Health and UCSF Medical Center are offering more convenient access to care for patients in Northern California.

Dr. Francis Yao, a top UCSF transplant hepatologist, began seeing patients last month. Patients can schedule an appointment by calling (415) 353-2156 or by stopping into John Muir Health’s Walnut Creek Outpatient Center during clinic hours.

Dates for the John Muir Health and UCSF Medical Center’s new collaborative Liver Transplant Outpatient Clinic are: June 22; July 22; Aug. 25; Sept. 22; Oct. 27; and Nov. 24. at the John Muir Health Outpatient Center, Walnut Creek, 1450 Treat Blvd, Suite 200.

Patients will have access to one of UCSF’s top transplant hepatologists at a convenient location. UCSF performs between 140-160 transplants annually and has performed more than 3,000 liver transplants as of February 2014. UCSF’s annual volume consistently places the medical center among the top five liver transplant programs in the country.

About John Muir Health

John Muir Health is a nationally recognized, not-for-profit health care organization east of San Francisco serving patients in Contra Costa, eastern Alameda and southern Solano Counties.

About UCSF Medical Center

UCSF Medical Center consistently ranks as one of the top 10 hospitals in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.